NEW DELHI:
In the face of the exit polls that show BJP losing the Delhi Assembly elections, the party’s Chief Ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi today said that a defeat or victory she will take the responsibility for its showing.
The comments by Bedi are seen as an attempt to distance Prime Minister Narendra Modi from a possible defeat of BJP. Counting of votes for the keenly contested Assembly polls yesterday will be taken up on Tuesday.
The comments came even as Union minister and senior BJP leader Nirmala Sitharaman met Bedi and spent over an hour at the former IPS officer’s Uday Park residence in south Delhi.
“A survey is always a survey. Also, I think we need to wait for the 10th for the final result. Because in some Assembly seats the margin is very less. So it could swing any way,” Bedi told reporters when asked to comment on the projections by the exit polls shown on TV channels.
To a question about the possibility of a BJP defeat, Bedi said that whatever be the poll outcome whether it is win or defeat she will take the responsibility.
Bedi had yesterday also said that she would take “full responsibility” if her party suffers a loss.
AAP appears set for a sweeping victory, according to yesterday’s exit polls. BJP was projected to be the second largest party way behind AAP, the polls said.
“We will talk after the results come out on 10th. We’re hopeful that the results will favour us,” Sitharaman, the Union Commerce and Industries Minister, told reporters after her meeting with Bedi. (AGENCIES)
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